THERE is a strange phenomenon at the present moment, which even the wayfaring man (if he reads a little) must be struck with — or be curious about. A philosophical theory is out in the world making ...
The manner in which you deal with the other major theoretical project of the International Committee—the lectures held in August 2005 in Ann Arbor—is a travesty. Once again, you make no effort to ...
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David Schaefer misquoted me (People's Forum, 4/29) as saying Pragmatism is "America's Official Philosophy." I actually wrote that pragmatism is America's "de facto national philosophy." The term de ...
After several decades, the scholarship of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is getting global attention. In the last four years, four biographies by different scholars and four scholarly books, excluding a set of ...
Asked once his thoughts on pragmatism, the late Columbia University professor Sidney Morgenbesser is said to have replied: “It’s all very well in theory, but it doesn’t work in practice.” Like a bad ...
American conservatism and liberalism diverge philosophically. Furthermore evangelism, in conservatism’s orbit, and different leftisms, in liberalism’s orbit, and environmentalism, mostly in liberalism ...
Peter Berkowitz has an interesting essay in the Weekly Standard on Obama’s pragmatism. In it, he argues that Obama’s much-touted Pragmatism is deeply ideological. This is straight up my alley. So I ...
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